Victor Cha, Bush Center
Historically, human rights have not played a large role in U.S. negotiations with North Korea, yet they are critical to any future credible and compreh
Ridvan Bari Urcosta, ECFR
The most pro-Russian part of Crimea is also the greatest source of headaches for Moscow. Will the Kremlin succeed in extending its writ there?
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, The Bulletin
Three steps toward resolving Iran's nuclear crisis The underlying assumptions on the part of Trump administration to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) were the following: 1) by implementing the maximum pressure policy, Iran's oil exports would reach zero; its financial transactions would be fundamentally hindered and Iran's economy would collapse; 2) Continued
B. Katzeff Silberstein, FPRI
The current trade war between Japan and South Korea makes little logical sense in a liberal worldview of international relations. French economist Frederic Bastiat (allegedly) said that when goods don't cross borders, soldiers will. The idea is that social and economic bonds created by trade across borders should form peaceful,
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Germany won't back a U.S. mission to Hormuz, France hesitates, and only Boris Johnson's U.K. is all for it.
Erich Parpart, Bangkok Post
For the country like Thailand where the military staged two putsches within the past 13 years, a coup d'tat should no longer be necessary.
International Crisis Group
The U.S. decision to leave troops in north-eastern Syria has bought the area time but not lasting stability. Washington should press its Kurdish YPG allies to loosen their PKK ties lest Ankara intervene and stop obstructing their autonomy talks with Damascus.
James Holmes, National Interest
TR was only sixty when he shucked off his mortal coil. But what if he had never set out to chart an unexplored river in the Amazon backcountry?
Hal Brands, Bloomberg View
The two most important global issues of the coming decades are the return of rivalry between great powers and the intensification of climate change. Squarely at the intersection of these trends sits the Arctic, a region whose growing importance is reshaping the world's geo-economics and geopolitics alike.
M. Tupy, CapX
The recent election of Zuzana Caputova to the Slovak Presidency was widely welcome as an affirmation of Slovakia's good standing within the liberal wing of the European Union's member states and a repudiation of right-wing populism la Poland and Hungary the rise of which so vexes the great and the good in Brussels.
Ashish Kundra, The Hindu
The province in China offers some ideas to the Northeast in the areas of connectivity, border trade and ecotourism
Daniel Luban, New Republic
Yoram Hazony has written the closest thing to a manifesto for intellectuals on the right.
James Meek, London Review of Books
We find ourselves in a fantastical place: deep in the mire of post-Brexit politics before Brexit has happened. Brexit used to be about leaving the European Union. The contest for the Tory leadership, just drawing to a close as I write, has been a glaring signal that quitting the EU may not . . .
Mitsuru Obe & Kim Jaewon, Nikkei
Samsung's chip business faces "burdens" from Tokyo's new export controls
Bertil Lintner, Asia Times
Chinese investment and tourism are rising fast in the country at a time the US and EU pull back in revulsion at new rights abuses
